FOUR FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL PLATES each enamelled with a peony spray in a foliate panel below fruit-shaped floral panels reserved on a whorl-pattern ground with flower-heads (one cracked, one restored), Qianlong | Christie's

Sale 2142

Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art

Amsterdam

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14 May 1991

Browse Sale

Lot 339

FOUR FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL PLATES each enamelled with a peony spray in a foliate panel below fruit-shaped floral panels reserved on a whorl-pattern ground with flower-heads (one cracked, one restored), Qianlong

Price realised

NLG 1,840

Estimate

NLG 1,200 - NLG 1,800

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FOUR FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL PLATES each enamelled with a peony spray in a foliate panel below fruit-shaped floral panels reserved on a whorl-pattern ground with flower-heads (one cracked, one restored), Qianlong
22.3 cm. wide (4)
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